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The QC, Vol. 93, No. 18 • March 1, 2007

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The Voice of Whittier College Since 1914
Mail
goes
missing
Brian Kovar
QC Staff Writer
Whittier College students
have recently begun reporting
to Campus Safety that they have
not been receiving their mail.
Lost packages, delayed mail and
the inconsistency of delivery
has now become an issue which
is being brought up with the
mailroom.
According to the Head of the
Mailroom staff Sherrie Edwards,
the mail itself is being lost in
transit. Currently Edwards is in
contact with the Postmaster Superintendent who is looking into
the matter at Bailey Station, the
post office which delivers mail to
the college and the surrounding
area. The Superintendent is expected to be releasing a statement
on the work that the Bailey Station has done in response to the
question of where this mail has
been going. The Bailey Station
recently notified Edwards that
the mail sorting is now mostly
being done at the Santa Ana
branch. Edwards believes that
the problem lies "between the
point of the sender and wherever
it's sorted."
The Superintendent was unavailable for comment.
"I know we ourselves receive
quite a bit of mail for the credit
union for Rio Hondo," Edwards
said. "We get mail that's from
Rhode Island to Rhode Island.
We get a lot of mail from back east
to back east that shouldn't even
be over here." Edwards added
that most of the mail that has
been lost was mailed in the first
two weeks of November, but that
students have not really come
forward about it until now.
First-year student Kami
Seminara said that she has had
money, clothing and other personal articles lost in the mail.
When told about the source of
the problems, she was shocked.
"I thought it was being stolen,
but now I don't know what to
think," Seminara said.
see MAIL, page 6
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Issue 18-Volume 93
QC@WHITTIER.EDU
JUSTIN VELASCO / QC NEWS EDITOR
And they call it Poet love
Married couple Eva Sevcikova '03 and Tim Tiernan '02 celebrate meeting at Whittier College at the "For the Love of the Poets" reception held on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Ward-
man House. These two met while working at the Quaker Campus, and fell in love after
graduating. The two were one of 50 couples attending the event where couples who met
through Whittier College shared personal stories. For the full story, see News page 4.
Common Ground founders
discuss New Orleans
Julia Kitlinski-Hong
QC News Asst. Editor
The motto of the grassroots organization Common Ground, "Solidar-
ity,notCharity,"filledHoover lOOon
Wednesday, Feb. 26, as co-founders
Brandon Darby and Malik Rahim
spoke out on racial injustice relating
to New Orleans.
The event was hosted by Rebirth,
a newly founded club on campus that
is focused on helping provide student
volunteers, raising money and educating people on the rebuilding of New
Orleans. Similarly, Common Ground
is an organization founded out of
anger toward the lack of government
action in helping rebuild the city. Al
though this organization concentrates
on rebuilding the physical aspects of
the city, it also focus on eliminating
the racism that has emerge out of this
natural disaster.
Darby began the evening by
asking the question, "are we really in
solidarity?" an inquiry that mirrored
the lack of response by Americans to
the situation in New Orleans. He then
asked the audience if they could truly
comprehend as privileged American,
what a black mother is going through
when her kids come home and tell her
that they were called obscenities by
white policeman, because they were
looking for basic substance. Darby
asked the audience to raise their hands
and then bring them down when they
fully empathized with this women's
plight. The hands were slow to fall.
When Rahim stood to speak he
asked those who had been to New
Orleans to also stand, and he applauded them graciously. Ourcountry
is all about patriotism, he said, but I
have yet to see it with the government
in New Orleans. "I think that true
patriotism is in this room." he said.
Rahim added that America is "the
most powerful nation on the planet,
but somehow our government fails to
demonstrate civil responsibility." He
explained his outrage due to relief aid
avoiding inner-city areas and setting
up soup kitchens in areas that were
middle-class and mostly white.
Darby then went on to explain that
see E VENT, page 6
COR
allocates
$46,000
Justin Velasco
QC News Editor
The Council of Representatives
(COR) allocated $46,183.34 to campus clubs and organizations during the
spring semester Block Funding meeting held on Monday, Feb. 26. As spring
has more financial requests compared
to the fall, COR had to cut money from
over half of the requests.
After six hours of debate, the
meeting ended at 1:15 a.m. with
9.04 percent of the money allocated
for academic events, 22.68 percent
for cultural events, 25.09 percent to
recreational, 42.83 for social and 0.36
for service events [see News page 5
for a list of each event and the amount
allocated.]
Junior ASWC President Rev.
Adam Steinbaugh said, "I'm glad that
a lot of groups got funding and I wish
that we had the resources to be able
to fund everything in full but the fact
of the matter is that we haven't seen
a raise in student body fees in, like,
a decade now and we don't have the
money to fund everything people ask
for." Steinbaugh added that he thinks
there should be about a $10 raise in
student body fees.
Though COR considers this
semester's block funding a success,
there were a few discrepancies among
COR members on how much should
be allocated to each event. Senior
Media Council Representative Bianca Naylor who attended the Block
Funding meeting as part of COR
disagreed with the allocation of the
Ski and Snowboard Club's event
Snow Jam, "I'm absolutely appalled
that my fellow COR members would
approve a request from a club that not
only stated that they are 'too busy' to
attend ICC meetings, but also failed
to turn in their paperwork by the very
generous deadline. All of the other
organizations that were requesting
money are not only in good ICC attendance standing, they also turned
in their paperwork on time. It should
not have even been a question, they
failed to do the only two things they
needed to do."
"Just because an organization
will bring us good press is not a good
see COR, page 5
DIARIES FROM ABROAD
Junior Rosealee Titus writes
from abroad in cold, beautiful
Denmark.
Campus Life, Page 9
"RE-ANIMATED"
Whittier alumnus Adam Pava ('99)
poses with Golly Gopher, a TV
show character he created.
A&E, Page 11

The Voice of Whittier College Since 1914
Mail
goes
missing
Brian Kovar
QC Staff Writer
Whittier College students
have recently begun reporting
to Campus Safety that they have
not been receiving their mail.
Lost packages, delayed mail and
the inconsistency of delivery
has now become an issue which
is being brought up with the
mailroom.
According to the Head of the
Mailroom staff Sherrie Edwards,
the mail itself is being lost in
transit. Currently Edwards is in
contact with the Postmaster Superintendent who is looking into
the matter at Bailey Station, the
post office which delivers mail to
the college and the surrounding
area. The Superintendent is expected to be releasing a statement
on the work that the Bailey Station has done in response to the
question of where this mail has
been going. The Bailey Station
recently notified Edwards that
the mail sorting is now mostly
being done at the Santa Ana
branch. Edwards believes that
the problem lies "between the
point of the sender and wherever
it's sorted."
The Superintendent was unavailable for comment.
"I know we ourselves receive
quite a bit of mail for the credit
union for Rio Hondo," Edwards
said. "We get mail that's from
Rhode Island to Rhode Island.
We get a lot of mail from back east
to back east that shouldn't even
be over here." Edwards added
that most of the mail that has
been lost was mailed in the first
two weeks of November, but that
students have not really come
forward about it until now.
First-year student Kami
Seminara said that she has had
money, clothing and other personal articles lost in the mail.
When told about the source of
the problems, she was shocked.
"I thought it was being stolen,
but now I don't know what to
think," Seminara said.
see MAIL, page 6
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Issue 18-Volume 93
QC@WHITTIER.EDU
JUSTIN VELASCO / QC NEWS EDITOR
And they call it Poet love
Married couple Eva Sevcikova '03 and Tim Tiernan '02 celebrate meeting at Whittier College at the "For the Love of the Poets" reception held on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Ward-
man House. These two met while working at the Quaker Campus, and fell in love after
graduating. The two were one of 50 couples attending the event where couples who met
through Whittier College shared personal stories. For the full story, see News page 4.
Common Ground founders
discuss New Orleans
Julia Kitlinski-Hong
QC News Asst. Editor
The motto of the grassroots organization Common Ground, "Solidar-
ity,notCharity,"filledHoover lOOon
Wednesday, Feb. 26, as co-founders
Brandon Darby and Malik Rahim
spoke out on racial injustice relating
to New Orleans.
The event was hosted by Rebirth,
a newly founded club on campus that
is focused on helping provide student
volunteers, raising money and educating people on the rebuilding of New
Orleans. Similarly, Common Ground
is an organization founded out of
anger toward the lack of government
action in helping rebuild the city. Al
though this organization concentrates
on rebuilding the physical aspects of
the city, it also focus on eliminating
the racism that has emerge out of this
natural disaster.
Darby began the evening by
asking the question, "are we really in
solidarity?" an inquiry that mirrored
the lack of response by Americans to
the situation in New Orleans. He then
asked the audience if they could truly
comprehend as privileged American,
what a black mother is going through
when her kids come home and tell her
that they were called obscenities by
white policeman, because they were
looking for basic substance. Darby
asked the audience to raise their hands
and then bring them down when they
fully empathized with this women's
plight. The hands were slow to fall.
When Rahim stood to speak he
asked those who had been to New
Orleans to also stand, and he applauded them graciously. Ourcountry
is all about patriotism, he said, but I
have yet to see it with the government
in New Orleans. "I think that true
patriotism is in this room." he said.
Rahim added that America is "the
most powerful nation on the planet,
but somehow our government fails to
demonstrate civil responsibility." He
explained his outrage due to relief aid
avoiding inner-city areas and setting
up soup kitchens in areas that were
middle-class and mostly white.
Darby then went on to explain that
see E VENT, page 6
COR
allocates
$46,000
Justin Velasco
QC News Editor
The Council of Representatives
(COR) allocated $46,183.34 to campus clubs and organizations during the
spring semester Block Funding meeting held on Monday, Feb. 26. As spring
has more financial requests compared
to the fall, COR had to cut money from
over half of the requests.
After six hours of debate, the
meeting ended at 1:15 a.m. with
9.04 percent of the money allocated
for academic events, 22.68 percent
for cultural events, 25.09 percent to
recreational, 42.83 for social and 0.36
for service events [see News page 5
for a list of each event and the amount
allocated.]
Junior ASWC President Rev.
Adam Steinbaugh said, "I'm glad that
a lot of groups got funding and I wish
that we had the resources to be able
to fund everything in full but the fact
of the matter is that we haven't seen
a raise in student body fees in, like,
a decade now and we don't have the
money to fund everything people ask
for." Steinbaugh added that he thinks
there should be about a $10 raise in
student body fees.
Though COR considers this
semester's block funding a success,
there were a few discrepancies among
COR members on how much should
be allocated to each event. Senior
Media Council Representative Bianca Naylor who attended the Block
Funding meeting as part of COR
disagreed with the allocation of the
Ski and Snowboard Club's event
Snow Jam, "I'm absolutely appalled
that my fellow COR members would
approve a request from a club that not
only stated that they are 'too busy' to
attend ICC meetings, but also failed
to turn in their paperwork by the very
generous deadline. All of the other
organizations that were requesting
money are not only in good ICC attendance standing, they also turned
in their paperwork on time. It should
not have even been a question, they
failed to do the only two things they
needed to do."
"Just because an organization
will bring us good press is not a good
see COR, page 5
DIARIES FROM ABROAD
Junior Rosealee Titus writes
from abroad in cold, beautiful
Denmark.
Campus Life, Page 9
"RE-ANIMATED"
Whittier alumnus Adam Pava ('99)
poses with Golly Gopher, a TV
show character he created.
A&E, Page 11